Create a Copy Protected CD #1 uNDeRCoVeR
Here's an example to copy-protect a Data CD by adding a dummy Data track so that the backup disc will have 2 Data tracks (which is in fact an Illegal Table of Contents).
Example using Crash Bandicoot 3 [PAL] (PSX):
* Get CDRWin 3.6b (or higher) and create an image of the CD (1 Mode2 data track).
The CUE-file should look something like this:
FILE "C:\TEMP\CRASH3.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
* Go to CDRWin -> Record Disc -> Load Cuesheet and read the Total Disc Time (should be 32:36:12).
* Now add another (dummy) data track at the end of the cue file by using notepad and set it to the Total Disc Time minus 2 seconds(!).
FILE "C:\TEMP\CRASH3.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 32:34:12 <-- Total Disc Time (32:36:12) minus 2 seconds * Look at CDRWin -> Record Disc -> Disc Layout... and you will see the added track starts at 32:36:12 (not 32:34:12). The time is equal to the Lead
Out starttime, so it should not come in range of the data track.
* Now record disc with CDRWin and you will get a CD with 2 data tracks.
The Crash Bandicoot 3 game runs fine on a Playstation.
Nero Burning Rom is the only program that can make a copy of this CD using the CD-Recorder as CD-Reader. It can't be copied on a CD-ROM reader (at least not on a Plextor PX-20TS)!
This trick should also works with Mixed Mode and Audio CD's.
To create an Mixed-Mode CD with an Illegal TOC subtract 4 seconds from the total time instead of the 2 seconds (just subtract seconds until CDRWin accepts the CUE-Sheet). Keep in mind that in CDRWin the total time of the new track should be at least the lead-out time.
USED HARD- AND SOFTWARE:
* Plextor PX-R412C
* Plextor PX-20TS
* Recordable: Philips Silver Premium
* CDRWin v3.6b & v3.7a (Win98)
Create a Copy Protected CD #2
Here's an another example to copy-protect a Data CD by adding a dummy Data track so that the backup disc will have 2 Data tracks.
If the second track has a different CD "mode" than the first then the CD WON'T BE COPIED AT ALL. Tried it on Heroes of Might & Magic 3 and NERO, CDRWin and EasyCD are not able to copy it.
Use the following CDRWin CUE-Sheet to write the CD.
FILE "HMM3.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 73:30:45
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Change Browser Toolbar Background
Change Browser Toolbar Background
This tweak Customize the apperance of the Internet Explorer Toolbar
1. Click Start > Run > Type gpedit.msc
2. Click User Configuration > Windows Setting > Internet Explorer Maintenance > Browser User Interface
3. Double click on Browser Toolbar Customization
4. Click on Customize Toolbar Background Bitmap
5. Browse for the new Background
Note: Because you can customize your browser toolbar there isn't a specific size which
you need to make this tweak work. Play around with the size until you get it right.
The Width of your toolbar with be the width of your resolution. 1024 will be your width
if your resolution is 1024x768.
Now you changed the Toolbar Background of your browser and you sure see what you
wrote when you open a New Widow.
Change the Logon Background Color
1. Click Start > click Run > type regedit > and click OK.
2. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors
3. In the details pane (right-side), double-click the Background string value item.
4. Change the value to a 3 number RGB value, and then click OK .
You have now changed the logon background color.
NOTE: I went looking for this registry key after using the "Change the Logon BackGround" tweak, and that bright XP blue color kept showing before the OS had a chance to load my dark wallpaper.
This way if you choose a color close to the wallpaper shown, the load of the wallpaper is less noticeable.
Change the Browser Title
Change the Browser Title
This tweak Customize the Title of the Internet Explorer.
1. Click Start > Run > Type gpedit.msc
2. Click User Configuration > Windows Setting > Internet Explorer Maintenance > Browser User Interface
3. Double click on Browser Title
4. Click on Customize Title Bars
5. type in whatever you want
6. Click OK
Now you changed the title of your browser and you sure see what you wrote when you
open a New Widow.
Show Encrypted Files in Color
Show Encrypted Files in Color
You can encrypt files and folders on NTFS volumes to hide their content from other users.
To quickly identify encrypted files and folders in your system, follow this tip to display the name of the encrypted file or folder in color.
1. Double-click My Computer, and then click Folder Options on the Tools menu.
2. Click the View tab.
3. Select the Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color check box, and then click OK.
Now the name of the encrypted file or folder is listed in color within Windows Explorer.
The EFS feature is not included in Windows XP Home Edition.
Customize Your "Start" Button
Customise Your "Start" Button
you need a tool called "Resource Hacker". This free program allows you to change resources in any .exe file such as "Explorer.exe", which includes the [Start] button's Label. You can visit Download.com and search there for "Resource Hacker".
After you download it, follow the guide here:
Step 1:
A - Run "Resource Hacker" and open the file "%windir%\Explorer.exe".
B - You see a Tree of all Resources in this file, expand the "String Table"
C - Find the "start" and replace it with your own text. then press the [Compile Script] button.
D - Save "Explorer.exe" as "MyStart.exe" DONT save it as Explorer.exe, do "save as.." and give it a new name.
E - Quit "Resource Hacker".
Step 2:
A - Click on the [Start] button and choose the "Run..." item from the start menu. (Or use the shortcut key WinKey+R)
B - Type "RegEdit" in the Run "Dialog Box". And then press the [Ok] buton to run the "Registry Editor" program.
C - Go to: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\W indowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" and find the "Shell" property.
D - Replace value of the "Shell" property to "MyStart.exe".
E - Quit "Registry Editor".
F - Restart your system.
Note about Registry Editor:
if you did not find the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\W indowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", you can search the Registry for the "Explorer.exe", to do this use the Edit Menu | Find Next (Ctrl+F).
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Windows XP 12 Handy Shortcuts
Windows XP 12 Handy Shortcuts
Here are 12 handy shortcuts you can type into your XP run menu to get the utilities you want and need.
Click Start --> Run
1. compmgmt.msc Computer management
2. devmgmt.msc Device manager
3. diskmgmt.msc Disk management
4. dfrg.msc Disk defrag
5. eventvwr.msc Event viewer
6. fsmgmt.msc Shared folders
7. gpedit.msc Group policies
8. lusrmgr.msc Local users and groups
9. perfmon.msc Performance monitor
10 rsop.msc Resultant set of policies
11. secpol.msc Local security settings
12. services.msc Services
CREAT YOUR OWN TIPS
CREAT YOUR OWN TIPS
hey frins getting bored of windows tutorial tips that apears when u log in to windows , use this hack to change and add your own tips
navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WI NDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXPLORER\TIPS
the tips are listed in alphabetical order or numerical sequence. u can either replace tthe string valu in the existing tips , or creat your own tips, or increament the existing letters or numbers and enter a string value with your own tip. for exmple if the last tip is designated "Y" the next tip could be "Z" with ur string value text
A HOTKEY FOR COMMAND LINE DIRECTORY COMPLETION
A HOTKEY FOR COMMAND LINE DIRECTORY COMPLETION
if u work at command line for a considerable length of time u will want this hack , specify a key, which when pressed, will complete the directory name.
NAVIGATE TO
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\SOFTWARES\MICROSOFT\C OMMAND PROCESSOR
AND TO :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\CO MMAND PROCESSOR
the first key above is user specific the second wide. change the setting of pathcompletionchar to DWORD hexadecimal value of the control character, for exmaple the value for the [Tab] key is 9 and [Ctrl] + [D] is 4 and so on... each key or key combination has a value assoiciated.
get more values at h t t p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
now at command prompt when u type in letters of a directory and press the combination key it will display the directory path matching your entry.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Top 5 HACKERS
1. Kevin Mitnick.
Mitnick is perhaps synonymous with Hacker. The Department of Justice still refers to him as "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history." His accomplishments were memorialized into two Hollywood movies: Takedown and Freedom Downtime.
Mitnick got his start by exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system and getting free rides. Then similar to Steve Wozniak, of Apple, Mitnick tried Phone Phreaking. Mitnick was first convicted for hacking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software.
Mitnick then embarked on a two and a half year coast to coast hacking spree. He has stated that he hacked into computers, scrambled phone networks, stole corporate secrets and hacked into the national defense warning system. His fall came when he hacked into fellow computer expert and hacker Tsutomu Shimomura's home computer.
Mitnick is now a productive member of society. After serving 5 years and 8 months in solitary confinement, he is now a computer security author, consultant and speaker.
2. Adrian Lamo
Lamo hit major organizations hard, hacking into Microsoft and The New York Times. Lamo would use Internet connections at coffee shops, Kinko's and libraries to achieve his feats earning him the nickname "The Homeless Hacker". Lamo frequently found security flaws and exploited them. He would often inform the companies of the flaw.
Lamo's hit list includes Yahoo!, Citigroup, Bank of America and Cingular. Of course White Hat Hackers do this legally because they are hired by the company to such, Lamo however was breaking the law.
Lamo's intrusion into The New York Times intranet placed him squarely into the eyes of the top cyber crime offenders. For this crime, Lamo was ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution. Additionally, he was sentenced to six months home confinement and 2 years probation. Probation expired January of 2007. Lamo now is a notable public speaker and award winning journalist.
3. Jonathan James
At 16 years old, James gained enormous notoriety when he was the first minor to be sent to prison for hacking. He later admitted that he was just having fun and looking around and enjoyed the challenge.
James hit high profile organizations including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which is an agency of the Department of the Defense. With this hack he was able to capture usernames and passwords and view highly confidential emails.
High on James list, James also hacked in NASA computers and stole software valued at over $1.7 million. The Justice Department was quoted as saying: "The software stolen by James supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space." Upon discovering this hack, NASA had to shut dow its entire computer system costing taxpayers $41,000. Today James aspires to start a computer security company.
4. Robert Tappan Morris
Morris is the son of a former National Security Agency scientist named Robert Morris. Robert is the creator of the Morris worm. This worm was credited as the first computer worm spread through the Internet. Because of his actions, he was the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris created the worm while at Cornell as a student claiming that he intended to use the worm to see how large the Internet was at the time. The worm, however, reproduced itself uncontrollably, shutting down many computers until they had completely malfunctioned. Experts claim 6,000 machines were destroyed. Morris was ultimately sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of community service and assessed a $10,500 fine.
Morris is now a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His focus is computer network architecture.
5. Kevin Poulsen
Frequently referred to as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained national recognition for his hack into Los Angeles radio's KIIS-FM phone lines. These actions earned him a Porsche among many other items.
The FBI began to search for Poulson, when he hacked into the FBI database and federal computers for sensitive wiretap information. Poulsen's specialty was hacking into phone lines and he frequently took over all of a station's phone lines. Poulson also reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for a partner who operated a virtual escort agency. Poulson was featured on Unsolved Mysteries and then captured in a supermarket. He was assessed a sentence of five years.
Since his time in prison, Poulsen has worked as a journalist and was promoted to senior editor for Wired News. His most popular article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with Myspace profiles.
Weird things you would never know!
Weird things you would never know! (but do now!)
* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
* Most lipsticks contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
* A shrimp's heart is in its head.
* The "sixth stick sheil's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteris in your ear by 700 times.
* If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
* If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
* A Snall can sleep for three years.
* No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* It's possible to lead a cow upstairs.....but not downstairs.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
* Almost everyone who has read this will try to lick his/her elbow.
CHANGE LOCATION...
CHANGE LOCATION OF WINDOWS INSTALLATION FILES
if u installed XP from a CD and then copied the installation disc to hard disk, use this hack to change the default installation folder that xp will look after for when it searches for additional setup files later.
navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WI NDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\SETUP
change the string value called sourcepath to u want were the xp setup files are now stored. when you next need to access any setup files, XP will look in this new location instead to click brows
Automatic Refreshh
AUTOMATIC WINDOWS REFRESH
normally there is small delay after some info changed before it reflects in GUI. if u need to see info quickly , u would need to press F5. the following will enable system to do faster update:
navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROL SET\CONTROL\UPDATE
for faster update change the DWORD value called UpdateMode tp 0 and reboot
Automatic Refreshh
AUTOMATIC WINDOWS REFRESH
normally there is small delay after some info changed before it reflects in GUI. if u need to see info quickly , u would need to press F5. the following will enable system to do faster update:
navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROL SET\CONTROL\UPDATE
for faster update change the DWORD value called UpdateMode tp 0 and reboot
TURN OFF WINDOWS ANIMATION
TURN OFF WINDOWS ANIMATION
windows animation like thoese that happen when u minimises or maximise windows look good... but only if u have good ram , speed. to get most performance out of ur settings turn off this settings . you could do it via a host of setting in GUI, but this registry hack does it all in single fell swoop.
navigate to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP\WINDOWSMETRICS
change the value MinAnimation too 0 to disable winbdows Animation
restart computer
DISABLE THUMBNAIL CACHING
DISABLE THUMBNAIL CACHING
Explorer feature includes to display thumbnail of images and fram of video when seeen in thumbnail viw. explorer can either creat it when u access the folder or fetch it from the thumbnail cache. fetching thumbnails from cache is significantly faster, but will consume a lots of hard disk space specially if ur system if full of images and video.
navigate to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WIN DOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXPLORER\ADVANCED
set DWORD value DisableThumbnailCache to 1 if u have low hard disk space. otherwise its good to leave it zero ... it can be useful
DISABLE THUMBNAIL CACHING
DISABLE THUMBNAIL CACHING
Explorer feature includes to display thumbnail of images and fram of video when seeen in thumbnail viw. explorer can either creat it when u access the folder or fetch it from the thumbnail cache. fetching thumbnails from cache is significantly faster, but will consume a lots of hard disk space specially if ur system if full of images and video.
navigate to :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WIN DOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXPLORER\ADVANCED
set DWORD value DisableThumbnailCache to 1 if u have low hard disk space. otherwise its good to leave it zero ... it can be useful
Disable user Tracking
DISABLE USER TRACKING
useless to most user-expert perhaps for system admin XP's inbuilt user tracking system uses up presious resourses.
the system keeps of track of programs run by users, the paths followed and documents used. disable this to free up resources.
navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\win dows\currentversion\policies\explorer
set the DWORD NoInstrumentation to 1. this will disable most of user tracking feature of xp.
Unload Unused Dlls
UNLOAD UNUSED DLLs
after as application is closed, XP has the annoying habit of leaving the associated DLL files in memory. This can hog precious resource and memory, and also cause stability problem. make the DLLs unload themselves from memory when program is done running
navigate to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft|wi ndows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AlwaysUnlo adDLL
and if DWORD AlwaysUnloadDLL is not present, u need to creat it. set the value of "(default)" setting to 1 Application associated Dlls will get unload when app is closed.
Optimize ur Boot Files
OPTIMISATION OF THE BOOT FILES
normally file fragmentation scatters pieces of a file all over hard disk. this invariable also affect files that load at boot time. u can defragment the files that load at system startup to enable faster loading.
navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Df rg\BootOptimizeFunction
A setting called Enable under this key needs to set to Y for yes. this setting defragments the boot files, and it might relocate startup files into contiguous clusters on the volume, reducing the movement of disk head when reading volume.
reboot
LOAD APPLICATION FASTER
LOAD APPLICATION FASTER
the windows prefetcher aims to load app. faster by prefetching the app and storing it in the prefetch cache. you can speed up app. loading by changing the default value of the settings under relevant key.
navigate to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl Set\Control|SessionManager\Memory Managagement\PrefetchParameters
the default value for EnablePrefetcher setting is 3 Now change this value to 5 to make app. load faster, u can experiment with higher values up to 8 and see if you get a further improvement.
and since related to system a reboot is req. for change to take effect.
(always note u can not expect much that your RAM)